Consolidated Tin Mines Ltd. (ASX:CSD) has announced continued improvements to tin recoveries and residence times from testing of ore at a tin fuming test facility commissioned at the site of its Mount Garnet Tin Project in May 2015.
Recent results at the Mt Garnet lab are exceeding the 80% tin recovery targeted for the DFS and suggest that recoveries of 90% are achievable. The labwork precedes pilot scale tests at the FEECO International test facility in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA, which is necessary for the completion of the DFS. Fifteen tonnes of ore from the Gillian deposit at Mount Garnet arrived at the facility in May and will be tested in order to optimise parameters for processing at production scale. The work at FEECO is being delayed until recoveries and residence times have been optimised at the Mt Garnet lab and as a result, finalisation of the DFS is now expected in late 2015.
The company has been producing zinc, copper and lead from mine assets purchased earlier this year also situated at Mt. Garnet. The company is now implementing its 2015-2016 operating plan and budget which will see a change in mining production to mostly focus on the Mount Garnet underground mine. However, bringing the Mount Garnet Tin Project to production remains the company’s primary long term goal.
